by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Start your week with a gentle exhale and get into a nice meditative state. Picture nature and the ecosystem reborn and with a fresh new start. Then as reality creeps back in, listen to more YlangYlang. The experimental Montreal based solo project of Catherine Debard is set to release their latest album, Interplay, on January 31st via Crash Symbols (Frank Hurricane, Sea Moss, Al Lover), a gorgeous and serene look into the self by way of the outside world. By using elements of jazz, new age, psych, and ethereal pop music, Debard is album to create something that feels beamed down from another plain on existence while being firmly rooted in our cosmos.
“Our Provisional,” the album’s second single opens like a dreamscape, still cloudy and coming into focus, the synths and beat trickling without concern in their own time. The electronic pulse is more texture than rhythm, blending with pastoral composition that feels computerized in the most natural of ways. Everything breaks for the haunting hook, with melodies drifting to the side like a rock skipping through the stillest of ponds. Layers and textures appear in tranquil waves, with plinks of cutting feedback and saxophone skronks all delivered with a gentle warmth, where even the most dynamic shifts feel gradual and inviting.
Speaking about the track, Debard shared:
"The video is intended to be meditative and poetic, mirroring the lyrics' restlessness and confusion about a possible environmental catastrophe. How would we inhabit nature again, after having known absolute comfort? What we would grieve? These thoughts permeate the song as well as the video, in a way. It's about presence, mostly, and awareness.”
YlangYlang will celebrate the release on January 25th at Montreal’s La Vitriola.